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Trial Studies Cancer Vaccine-Response Link
POSTED: July 15, 2008LOS ANGELES -- The stronger the immune system's response the better the outcome in fighting brain cancer, researchers at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles said Tuesday. Researchers conducted a clinical trial of a dentritic cell vaccine designed to fight malignant brain tumors to study the correlation between the strength of a patient's imm...
Study Reports 92 Percent Response Rate to Combination Treatment
POSTED: July 15, 2008FRAZER, Pa. -- Cephalon, Inc. announced today that in a phase 2 study published online today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, 92 percent of patients with relapsed indolent B-cell and mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) responded to treatment with TREANDA(R) (bendamustine hydrochloride) for Injection plus rituximab. This combination stud...
Make Mushrooms Your Pick Of The Season
POSTED: July 15, 2008Long overlooked, mushrooms are nature's hidden treasure for helping those focusing on living a healthful life. To promote the nutritional benefits of fresh produce this back-to-school season, Weight Watchers(R) continues Pick of the Season, a public health initiative spotlighting seasonal fruit and vegetables, with recipes this quarter for mus...
U.S. Preventive Medicine: Knowing Risk Factors & Early Detection are Best Strategies for Colon Cancer Prevention
POSTED: July 15, 2008DALLAS -- Colon and rectal cancer (colorectal cancer) kill approximately 50,000 people annually and are second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths, yet preventive measures could save many of these lives, according to Boyd Lyles, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of U.S. Preventive Medicine(R), (http://www.USPreventiveMedicine.com), an organization ...
Cancer Patients Are Up Against Lifetime Insurance Limit
POSTED: July 15, 2008In 19 years with breast cancer, Gladys Lester has had a mastectomy, breast reconstruction, and a stem-cell transplant. She's had operations to remove cancer that spread to her liver, lungs and ovaries, and chemotherapy that left her bald five separate times. But only in March, when she was told she'd used up her health coverage, did she feel ...
Team Discovers New Inhibitors Of Estrogen-dependent Breast Cancer Cells
POSTED: July 15, 2008Researchers have discovered a new family of agents that inhibit the growth of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells. The finding, described today at a meeting of the Endocrine Society, has opened an avenue of research into new drugs to combat estrogen-dependent breast cancers. "This cell-based study is exciting because it suggests these compounds are l...
Data From First Pivotal Study In Men Met Primary Endpoint Of Increases In Bone Mineral Density
POSTED: July 15, 2008THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Amgen today announced findings from a three-year pivotal Phase 3 placebo-controlled trial evaluating denosumab in the treatment of bone loss in men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for non-metastatic prostate cancer. In this study of more than 1,400 men, denosumab treatment produced statistically significa...
Company Licenses Test Predictive Of Outcomes To Breast Cancer Therapy
POSTED: July 15, 2008BOSTON -- The DNA Repair Company (DNAR), an emerging company focused on personalized approaches to cancer treatment, announced today the licensing of the exclusive rights in North America for the use of a newly discovered diagnostic test that strongly predicts how women with breast cancer will respond to a common form of chemotherapy. The rights...
Introduction Of Oxygen-Based Product To Davanat With 5-FU To Treat All Solid Tumors, Especially Head & Neck, Breast
POSTED: July 15, 2008NEWTON, Mass. -- Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary polysaccharide-based therapeutic compounds in the treatment of cancer and fibrosis, has requested a pre-Investigational New Drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to define the regimen for an Oxygen-based product (EZ-646)...
Higher Education, Lower Cancer Risk
POSTED: July 15, 2008WASHINGTON -- Higher education is good for the mind, and new research by the American Cancer Society says it's good for the body as well. The study indicates people with a college degree or more than 16 years of education die less often from lung, colorectal, prostate and breast cancers, researchers said in a news release Monday on Ivanhoe Ne...
